Apple’s iPad Pro now has an M5 chip and some nice internal upgrades

Last year’s iPad Pro was a immense redesign.

Apple conscionable announced a caller model of its champion and highest-end tablet, the iPad Pro. The caller instrumentality comes with a mates of interior upgrades implicit the M4-powered model, astir notably a brand-new chip, the M5. Apple says the spot brings “up to 3.5x the AI performance” of past year’s Pro, immoderate that means, on with large improvements successful assorted video tasks.

Apple seems to beryllium positioning the instrumentality arsenic an upgrade for radical who bought M1-powered Pros oregon older models, alternatively than thing M4 owners should beryllium jealous of. But the caller instrumentality really has a clump of interior upgrades beyond conscionable the caller processor. The Pro present besides comes with Apple’s caller C1X cellular modem (if you get the cellular version), and the N1 spot for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Thread. (Thread!) Apple accrued work and constitute speeds to memory, too, and the Pro adjacent supports accelerated charging of up to 50 percent successful astir 30 minutes.

The 11-inch exemplary starts astatine $999, and the 13-inch Pro astatine $1,299. They travel successful 2 colors, achromatic and silver. Both are disposable for pre-order now, and volition beryllium shipping and successful stores connected October 22.

The past clip Apple upgraded the iPad Pro was in May of 2024, and that instrumentality was a immense alteration from what had travel before. That Pro came with a new, thinner design, an OLED surface upgrade, caller accessories, and a much-improved camera setup. It was besides the archetypal instrumentality to tally the M4 processor; Apple is seemingly making a wont retired of debuting caller chips and caller tablets together. The M4 Pro has been the champion tablet connected the marketplace ever since. It’s a earnestly costly instrumentality — you tin walk $2,000 connected the happening without trying precise hard — but it’s a fabulous one.

Adding adjacent much powerfulness to the iPad Pro makes sense, arsenic Apple continues to crook the instrumentality into thing a batch much similar a laptop. With iPadOS 26, you tin present bash almost free-form multitasking connected the iPad, and paired with the (also precise good) Magic Keyboard accessory it tin bash a batch of MacBook things. We’ve said for years that the iPad’s bleeding-edge hardware has been held backmost by its hand-holding software, but the level seems to beryllium opening up much and more. And arsenic Apple’s instauration models and different AI features commencement to marque their mode astir the platform, you mightiness really beryllium capable to propulsion the M5 to its limits.